Blu-Ray Review: PROMPT (2025)

PROMPT

Directed by:  Charles Band

Distributed by:  Full Moon Entertainment / MVD Entertainment

  Today's review is for another Full Moon Entertainment feature.   Full Moon holds a special place in my horror loving heart, as I grew up on the awesome Full Moon films of the 80's and 90's.   It's amazing they are still going strong and producing so many films to this day!   One of their latest features is the sexy A.I. themed film, PROMPT.    Here is the basic plot from the MVD website:

  Prompt (2 Cut Version) is a provocative science fiction horror thriller from director Charles Band that explores the increasingly blurred boundary between artificial intelligence and human desire. When a young woman immerses herself in the world of AI to fulfill her deepest sexual fantasies, what begins as an enticing escape gradually transforms into a disturbing descent where sensual experiences become terrifying realities. As her dependence on the technology grows, she finds herself confronting a shocking truth hidden beneath the artificial intelligence guiding her every interaction.

   Blending psychological suspense with erotic science fiction and horror, the film examines obsession, technology, and the consequences of surrendering reality to artificial intimacy. Charles Band crafts an intimate thriller that steadily builds tension as fantasy gives way to paranoia and danger.

  Now, like a lot of the films I review, I have to preface this with you know what kind of film you're getting into when you watch a Full Moon film.   They don't take themselves too serious, and they aren't trying to make any Oscar worthy films.   What they do try to make are fun, silly films that keep you entertained.   I am happy to say they have succeeded once again with their newest release, PROMPT. 

  The main character, Taylor, is hired to use  an A.I. video generator to create a new ad campaign for a company.  She gets done with that project super quick, so she starts playing around with the A.I video generator for her own personal pleasure.  She can put in any prompt she wants  (hence the film's title) and a video is generated showing her exactly what she wants to see.  She mainly is having the A.I. generator make videos featuring beautiful (and naked) women in all sorts of scenarios.   She is enjoying watching one of the videos when she notices a strange man in the video looking back and watching her.  He is only there for a few seconds and then disappears.   

  As she continues to make these videos, she continues to see this mystery man and wonder who he is, and why is he in her videos when she didn't prompt him?   The answer she gets is a really cool twist that I was really impressed with. 

  The PROMPT Blu-Ray is a super fun release and one I highly recommend.  The picture quality is great and I love the use of all the different colors, especially in the A.I. videos that Taylor makes.   Speaking of Taylor,  that character is played by actress Lilly Bell.  She did a great job and I look forward to seeing her again soon in her lead role in ROBOTICA, another new film coming out soon from Full Moon Entertainment!   PROMPT is a fun film, and comes in at just 62 (or 63) minutes, depending on which cut you watch.  Both cuts are for adults only, so don't let the kiddos around this one!   PROMPT is a  really fun film, based on a very topical subject right now.   

 

  PROMPT is available now on DVD and Blu-Ray and contains the following Special Features:

*  PROMP Videozone - Behind the Scenes featurette

*  Trailer

* 2-cuts of the film, Soft and Hard

 

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Blu-ray Review: EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS (1977)

EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS
Written & Directed by Joe D'Amato
Distributed by CAV Distribution / Severin Films

  There are so many great sub-genres of horror, but one of my all time favorites is the cannibal film.   The cannibal films were huge back in the 70's and early 80's, with such classics as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE, and CANNIBAL FEROX just to name a few.  In 1977 the EMANUELLE series of films joined the group with EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS.   Here is the basic synopsis courtesy of the Severin Films website:

  In 1977, infamous filth auteur Joe D’Amato (BEYOND THE DARKNESS, ANTHROPOPHAGUS) combined the insane extremes of eroticism and cannibalism for the most groin-grinding, gut-munching, gore-spewing EuroSleaze saga of them all: When journalist Emanuelle (the ever-luscious Laura Gemser of BLACK EMANUELLE fame) discovers evidence of an extinct cannibal tribe in a Manhattan mental hospital, her investigation will take her to the Amazon jungle for an orgy of carnage that SexGoreMutants calls “…feral, demented and nasty. And in exploitation terms, that’s entertainment!” Gabriele Tinti (EMANUELLE IN AMERICA), Monica Zanchi (SISTER EMANUELLE) and Donald O’Brien (DOCTOR BUTCHER, M.D.) co-star in “the flesh & fear masterpiece from the late great splatter genius” (DVD Beaver) released to ‘80s grindhouses as TRAP THEM AND KILL THEM and now scanned in 2k from original vault elements.

  Once again we are treated to the lovely Laura Gemser as Emanuelle.   This time she is playing a reporter going deep into the Amazon forest to track down one of the last known surviving cannibal tribes.  Needless to say she finds it and all hell breaks loose!   Cannibal films are known for their gore, and this one does not disappoint.   There is tons of blood and lots of intestines being chomped on by the cannibal tribe.  There are some cool booby traps and torture devices as well.  Oh, and speaking of boobies, there are plenty of those on display as well.  That is to be expected, of course, with this being an entry in the Emanuelle series of films. 

 If you are a fan of the EMANUELLE films and/or cannibal films of the 1970's, you will definitely want to check out EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS.   The film is available now on DVD and BD from Severin Films  Special Features include the following:

*  The World Of Nico Fidenco: An Interview With Composer Nico Fidenco
*  A Nun Among The Cannibals: An Interview With Actress Annamaria Clementi
*  O’Brien MD: An Interview With Actor Donal O’Brien
*  From Switzerland To Mato Grosso: An Interview With Actress Monika Zanchi
*  I Am Your Black Queen: Laura Gemser Archive Audio Interview
*  Theatrical Trailer

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Blu-ray Review: VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON (1982)

 

VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON
Written & Directed by Bruno Mattei
Distributed by CAV Distribution / Severin Films

 Just like the rise of the Cannibal films of the early 80's, another popular exploitation sub-genre was at it's peak....the women in prison films.   There are a multitude of titles, but one of the best is Bruno Mattei's VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON, also known by the other titles CAGED WOMEN and EMANUELLE IN PRISON.   If you are a fan of the EMANUELLE films, then you will realize why it has that alternate title and it fits perfectly into the BLACK EMANUELLE series of films.  Why the title changed to VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON is beyond me.   The amazingly beautiful Laura Gemser  once again stars as "Black Emanuelle" in this film that is a must see for fans of the EMANUELLE series.

  Here is the basic plot of the film courtesy of the Severin Films website:

  In an over-the-top career filled with cannibals, zombies, nuns and Nazis, only EuroSleaze maestro Bruno Mattei (THE OTHER HELL, SHOCKING DARK) – along with frequent collaborators/co-writers Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi (TROLL 2, ZOMBIE 3 and 4)  – could take the BLACK EMANUELLE series to such insane depths of depravity: When Emanuelle (the legendary Laura Gemser) goes undercover in a penitentiary, she will endure a nightmare of sadistic guards, voracious lesbians, rat attacks, feces fights and enough graphic mayhem for a dozen women-in-prison trash epics. Gabriele Tinti (EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS), Lorraine De Selle (CANNIBAL FEROX) and Franca Stoppi (BEYOND THE DARKNESS) co-star in this “classic of exploitation” (Yell Magazine) – also known as CAGED WOMEN and EMANUELLE IN PRISON – now featuring a 2k scan from an uncensored inter-positive.

  If you have seen other "Women in Prison Films", also known by the inits WIP, you know exactly what to expect here.   WIP films are a mixture of soft-core eroticism, mixed with gore and torture of the inmates, usually ending with the inmates getting their revenge on the wicked warden and guards that administered the torture to them.   VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON pretty much follows that same pedigree, although there was not as much gore as in other WIP films.   The small amount of gore was good and effective though, especially when Emanuelle is thrown in solitary confinement which looks pretty much just like an old cave.  It is filled with nasty black rats that gnaw on her legs, body and face.  I couldn't help but wonder if actress Laura Gemser was actually scared of rats, because she looks absolutely terrified in this scene.   It looks like actual fright and panic on her face, and if it wasn't, then it was one of the best acting performances I have ever seen!

  If you are a fan of WIP films, you will definitely want to check this one out.  Severin films is putting out a wonderful new DVD and Blu-ray edition that will be available May 8th.   You can pre-order these now from the links below.   Special features include the following:

*  Brawl In Women’s Block: Interview With Co-Director/Co-Writer Claudio Fragasso and Co-Writer Rossella Drudi
*  Archive Interview With Director Bruno Mattei
*  Radio Spot

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